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There are so many meme templates from USAian media, but there are lots of European movies, series, and art and it's not being used. The closest I found was https://framamemes.org/ but it's just USAian memes redrawn.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would definitely love a repository of european memes, neatly catalogued with country of origin, where the meme is from (which series/movie/whichever source), etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which service could we use for it? Would codeberg be useful? Although I'm not sure it's fair to store media files there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just checked and as far as I can tell, it's for code not for files. Maybe the internet archive? Or something similar that is hosted in Europe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought of codeberg because we can just put files into a folder and send it to codeberg. Others can then suggest changes and they can be approved by those who have the rights to add those changes. I can't think of another website that allows people to contribute to a project together with some human review and for that to be searchable :(

Why do you suggest the internet archive? Which feature do you believe makes it appropriate for this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

My thinking was this: It makes memes searchable, the interface is pleasant to look at (instead of just a bunch of files in the folder), the memes are all visible at once (instead of having to open a single file to view).

You're raising good points though! I think it's also possible to protect a collection against bad faith actors, but I'm not sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Someone's already done something a bit like that (for one US show) on Codeberg:

As far as I can tell, that's a single user project. Anyone wanting to contribute would have to sign up to Codeberg (which is not an insignificant step; I tried a few weeks ago and somehow the process kept failing) and be approved by the project owner.

What about a fediverse hack until something official is setup? Like a hashtag (#euromeme) on Pixelfed / Mastodon or a community on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We have [email protected] for german meme templates. But it's not very active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Would be good to have them stored somewhere and easily searchable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There’s the Tintin/Captain Haddock “what a week” meme.

Perhaps we can get some Bernd das Brot or Grodan Boll memes, or some reaction frames from Jean-Luc Godard films or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They could shared on imgflip or similar sites with the prefix [EU] or something, for easy search.